(1) Adaptive Echo (AE) Released. A new era begins: Hansel and Gretel can communicate without letting the Wicked Witch know. Because your network will learn from connections: Next to "Full Echo" (messages are sent to every connected neighbor and hop on and on to further neighbors, "P2P") and "Half Echo" (message is sent only to one connected neighbor for one dedicated hop/transfer, "F2F") and "Echo-Accounts" (only defined neighbors are allowed to connect, "Web-of-Trust") now with "Adaptive Echo" a learning, smart network will be established based on AE-Tokens. Adaptive Echo provides exclusiveness between nodes, knowing the token. That means, a node/kernel will send the message not to all connected neighbors, but only to those, who knwo the token. As the Wicked Witch does not know the token, Hansel and Gretel are free. See further explanation inside the Messenger. Please note that version 0.9.07 (Adaptive Echo release) removes compatibility with all previous versions. Hence, please update yourself and your friends with a new installation and key-exchange.

(2) The App will now join the default common developer e*IRC/Buzz channel automatically after startup.

(3) Improved StarBeam FileSharing.

(4) Improved the SCTP implementation with respect to large data transfers. Added an SCTP listener to spot-on-neighbors.txt startup-connection-file.

(5) Gui Improvements and Tooltip-Updates.

(6) Compile Flag for GoldBug is now found in: GUI/spot-on-defines.h. (just replace in the spot-on.sf.net source the /ui and .pro files for GB)

(7) Upgraded Libraries: Qt to version 5.3.1 on Windows and OpenSSL to version 1.0.1h on OS X and Windows.

(1) Implemented Project Chat Server. GlodBug now connects automatically to a chat server. For that, the file "spot-on-neighbors.txt" has been added with server-information of the project test server. The application will process the contents of the file after a new installation. Neighbor connections will be set to connected directly after the login. Please restart your application after initial key creation. Please note that the file "spot-on-neighbors.txt" is expected to reside within the directory that houses the GB executable.

(2) Added a default E*IRC/Buzz developer's channel, so you can join and find other users and developers on the default project chat server.

(3) For E*IRC/Buzz-Channels now salt values are - next to hash keys - mandatory, in case you create an own IRC room. In case you send a magnet to friends for your IRC-room/-channel, then the hash and salt will be automatically included.

Updated OpenSSL library to latest. GB had no heartbleed, as the lib was already the latest and not affected.

(1) Improved, more simplified Gui, which is default at startup.

(2) Added e-mail C/O institutions: Institutions will now be able to house 3rd-party e-mail without needing to distribute their public keys. (Please remove your old email.db.) With enabling C/O service you create a post office for your friends. Two methods exist: Define a common neighbor (e.g Alice and Bob connect to a common webserver as node, and all three have email keys shared), then the webserver stores the emails, even if Alice or Bob are offline. Second: Create an Institution and add the email key of a friend to your node. In case your friend adds the magnet link for the institution as well to his node, the institution will save all emails for him (as well from senders, which are not registered at the virtual institution). A Magnet Link allows to share the Institution easily.

(3) SCTP implementation and support for Windows.

(4) Public keys of other participants will now be encrypted. Please remove friends_public_keys.db.

(1) Added FileSharing: Introduced the StarBeam Transfer Protocol. Magnet Links are related to Crypto-Channels in the network, and are not related to files. One-Time-Magnets ("OTM' s") are a Crypto-Channel to one dedicated file-transfer. Magnets of StarBeam are linkable on any homepage, as they are not associated to a file. The "Rewind" function starts the seed again. Seeders within these kind of "Crypto-Torrent"-like Magnets as trackers keep anonymous. Chunks are Encrypted. Keep Magnets private or use Accounts for Neighbours you trust or provide the file-rar/zip-encryption key after the Transmit.